Irony in The Cask of AmontilladoWhen people hear the name Edgar Allan Poe, ninety nine percent of the time the first thing that pops into their mind is horror, and rightfully so. A classic example of Poe's command of the horror genre is his short story, The Cask of Amontillado. This short story, how...

Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" consists of a monologue in which the murderer of an old man protests his insanity rather than his guilt: "You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded......